Ideas Quotes · Page 131

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

— Carver Mead

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

— Deepak Chopra

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

— William Cobbett

The future will bring new possibilities and ideas - and new terms for them.

— Jenna Wortham

“We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

— Jonathan Ive

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

— Miuccia Prada

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

— Ron Jeffries

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

— Ralph Steadman

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

— Justus von Liebig

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

— Shirley MacLaine

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

— John Frusciante

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

— Sean Paul

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I would rather have 10 people working on a record that are really committed and believe in it and love it, than…

— DJ Shadow

All organizations start with a structure that looks like a dynamic solar system. They can be very fast, agile. They attract people…

— John P. Kotter

Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth';…

— Laurie Davidson

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there…

— Matthew Specktor

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get…

— Neal Stephenson

Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on…

— Kemmons Wilson

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off…

— Harrison Birtwistle

I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space…

— Mario Botta

I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free,…

— Kate Bornstein

And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is…

— Hillary Clinton

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our…

— Charles Best

I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring…

— John K. Samson

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people…

— Steve Jobs

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature…

— Lawrence Wright

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

— Donna Tartt

The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

— Ian Astbury

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

— Jeremy Larner

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

— Paul McCartney

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

— Dave Gahan

A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

— Joseph Addison

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

— Stephen King

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

— Mooji